"I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody."

-- Shirley Franklin

#Years Quotes #Feet Quotes #Threat Quotes

“The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years.”
“I really believe it's time for some of us to stop apologizing for God and start apologizing to Him for being embarrassed by the ways He has chosen to reveal Himself”
“How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!”
“Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 4: Real Live Boyfriends”, p.40, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
“No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children.”

Source : Irving Greenberg (1998). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.253, Jason Aronson, Incorporated
“Black was bestlooking. ... Ebony was the best wood, the hardest wood; it was black. Virginia ham was the best ham. It was black on the outside. Tuxedos and tail coats were black and they were a man's finest, most expensive clothes. You had to use pepper to make most meats and vegetables fit to eat. The most flavorsome pepper was black. The best caviar was black. The rarest jewels were black: black opals, black pearls.”
“The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.”
“A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.”

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